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University of Southern California
CLOWNING AROUND—Gale LaJoye, the goodwill ambassador for the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus, was on campus Tuesday performing and discussing the various
aspects of clowning with the Theatre I class of William White. LaJoye said he has been trying to change the image people have of the clown as one who is named Chuckles and runs
around looking stupid. Summer Trojan photos by Teferi Nessibou and Bob Chavez.
Volume LXVIV, Number 9 Los Angeles, California Friday, July 16, 1976
PAC election commission voids
Summer
Trojan
IR vote, orders balloting in fall
SUN SHINES THROUGH—Although Thursday was one of the most gloomy days of the summer, with Tommy Trojan there is always a light shining down on it. Summer Trojan photo by Bob Chavez.
MONTREAL REPORT
By Don La Plante
Editor
In a final decision, the Commission on Credentials and Elections of the President’s Advisory Council ordered a new election in the fall for the electors in the School of International Relations.
These electors would represent the school in the election that would choose the representatives for The Graduate School to the President’s Advisory Council.
The dispute centered on the procedures and fairness of the election for the electors in International Relations.
In an election held on April 7, Jim Lamb and Michelle Collella were elected, but the election was later challenged by a number of students in the school. The students complained of Lamb’s actions in planning for the election.
Pool rated good as games begin
MONTREAL—The pool at the Olympic swimming stadium is almost an exact copy of the one in Munich and should provide good time in the swimming events reports Summer Trojan correspondent in Montreal, Andy Strenk.
The swimming events start on Sunday and Strenk said that the men’s swimming team has looked confident in their activity around the pool, while the women’s team has looked nervous.
“The men have been throwing around frisbees at the pool and show confidence in their performances. The women seem nervous and don’t seem to have that cockiness that comes from confidence.”
Strenk was a member of the Trojan swimming team from 1969-71. He graduated with his bachelor’s in history and is currently a doctoral student in history at the university.
Even though the roof leaks on the swim stadium, Strenk said that it should have no effect on the times.
“The pool has ten lanes and only eight will be used. The proof of the quality will come with the races, but it looks good to me.”
On Thursday morning Strenk said he believed that the games would go on as scheduled and that no serious consideration was being given to pull out by the United States.
“There is no way, it is too late. If the United States pulled out, then ABC would pull out and there is no way the IOC (International Olympic Committee)
can afford that. They are almost broke. The games will go on.”
He reported that journalists covering the games were complaining about the requirements that were being imposed on them. To get an interview with an athlete, reporters must submit a written request to the nation’s representative 24 hours in advance. There are over 8,000 journalists in Montreal for the games.
The requirements imposed on journalists are only part of the stringent requirements being imposed at the Olympic sites.
“So far there are more soldiers than athletes. But I wonder how long the security will hold up. When two buses come and let off their passengers, the line will be half-mile long. I’m not sure what they are going to do about that.
' “The security is lax at the airport though. There was no check on people. Nobody asked me what I was doing here or how long I was staying. People were even handing their bags over the fence at the airport and not going through the checks,” Strenk said.
While there is high security, the organization is not so good. Strenk reported that with all of the checkpoints that people in one office do not seem to know what another office is doing.
(Additional reports from Strenk will appear in
the Summer Trojan during the course ofthe games.)
Lamb had been an unofficial election commissioner and had run two abortive attempts at elections in the school. In an election run by the council, Lamb and Collella were elected, but many questions were raised.
Among the major questions were the possibility of tampering with the ballots and the time frame involved.
Ballots were placed in the graduate IR students mailboxes in the School of International Relations office. There were charges by Tom Johnson, a international relations student and last year a member of the PAC’s executive committee, that he never received a ballot and neither did a number of other students.
Out of the 70 students who could have voted, only about 15 cast ballots. While the percentage is higher than undergraduate elections, Johnson said that the previous two selections of electors took place in open meetings of the IR graduate students.
There was also questions raised about the time period allowed for the return of ballots. Ballots were placed in the mailboxes on April 1, a Thursday, and due in the PAC office on Monday, April 5. Johnson complained that many students did not know about the mailboxes and that those who did had insufficient time to get the ballots. He said that many of the students have classes only on Mondays and Wednesdays so that they would not have received ballots until the day they were due.
While the commission found both Lamb and Johnson at fault in a number of their actions, it ordered new elections in September.
If Lamb, who was later elected to a seat on the council by the electors in The Graduate School, is again elected there would be no change in the results of the Graduate School elections. However, if he does not win, then the electors will have to be reconvened to select a new
representative.
In the original elections, David Blackmar received 31 votes for the council seats, Renee Jackson-White received 29, Jim Lamb, 24, Narbik Manu-kian, 21, Connie Lynch, 12, and Scott Mall, 6.
Jackson-White has been seated as a member of the council. There was a challenge to Blackmar’s ability to serve because of his academic standing. Blackmar has since submitted a letter of resignation from the seat. Blackmar has not yet received his bachelor’s degree, and was not admitted to the graduate school.
Manukian has been seated to replace Blackmar on the council.
Glenn Sonnenberg, chairman of the students senate and a member of the elections and credentials commission, said he was pleased with the decision.
He said that both parties were too heavily involved in the issue and there was a conflict of interest. He also said that the election run by the PAC elections commission had been mishandled.
The election in the fall will be run by the Student Senate, under a new set of rules that will set up election commissions. He said that student elections should be run by students. The new rules provide for graduate and undergraduate election commissions, with decisions appealable to a joint commission, and then to the PAC elections and credentials commission.
The rules also provide for strict eligibility requirements and designate who will run the elections.
(In the International Relations case, there was a question of whether there was a student organization that could run the elections. The new rules are designed to settle such disputes.)
The credentials and elections commission will meet again later this month to iron out problems with a number of issues, including the elections for Graduate School representatives.

University of Southern California
CLOWNING AROUND—Gale LaJoye, the goodwill ambassador for the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus, was on campus Tuesday performing and discussing the various
aspects of clowning with the Theatre I class of William White. LaJoye said he has been trying to change the image people have of the clown as one who is named Chuckles and runs
around looking stupid. Summer Trojan photos by Teferi Nessibou and Bob Chavez.
Volume LXVIV, Number 9 Los Angeles, California Friday, July 16, 1976
PAC election commission voids
Summer
Trojan
IR vote, orders balloting in fall
SUN SHINES THROUGH—Although Thursday was one of the most gloomy days of the summer, with Tommy Trojan there is always a light shining down on it. Summer Trojan photo by Bob Chavez.
MONTREAL REPORT
By Don La Plante
Editor
In a final decision, the Commission on Credentials and Elections of the President’s Advisory Council ordered a new election in the fall for the electors in the School of International Relations.
These electors would represent the school in the election that would choose the representatives for The Graduate School to the President’s Advisory Council.
The dispute centered on the procedures and fairness of the election for the electors in International Relations.
In an election held on April 7, Jim Lamb and Michelle Collella were elected, but the election was later challenged by a number of students in the school. The students complained of Lamb’s actions in planning for the election.
Pool rated good as games begin
MONTREAL—The pool at the Olympic swimming stadium is almost an exact copy of the one in Munich and should provide good time in the swimming events reports Summer Trojan correspondent in Montreal, Andy Strenk.
The swimming events start on Sunday and Strenk said that the men’s swimming team has looked confident in their activity around the pool, while the women’s team has looked nervous.
“The men have been throwing around frisbees at the pool and show confidence in their performances. The women seem nervous and don’t seem to have that cockiness that comes from confidence.”
Strenk was a member of the Trojan swimming team from 1969-71. He graduated with his bachelor’s in history and is currently a doctoral student in history at the university.
Even though the roof leaks on the swim stadium, Strenk said that it should have no effect on the times.
“The pool has ten lanes and only eight will be used. The proof of the quality will come with the races, but it looks good to me.”
On Thursday morning Strenk said he believed that the games would go on as scheduled and that no serious consideration was being given to pull out by the United States.
“There is no way, it is too late. If the United States pulled out, then ABC would pull out and there is no way the IOC (International Olympic Committee)
can afford that. They are almost broke. The games will go on.”
He reported that journalists covering the games were complaining about the requirements that were being imposed on them. To get an interview with an athlete, reporters must submit a written request to the nation’s representative 24 hours in advance. There are over 8,000 journalists in Montreal for the games.
The requirements imposed on journalists are only part of the stringent requirements being imposed at the Olympic sites.
“So far there are more soldiers than athletes. But I wonder how long the security will hold up. When two buses come and let off their passengers, the line will be half-mile long. I’m not sure what they are going to do about that.
' “The security is lax at the airport though. There was no check on people. Nobody asked me what I was doing here or how long I was staying. People were even handing their bags over the fence at the airport and not going through the checks,” Strenk said.
While there is high security, the organization is not so good. Strenk reported that with all of the checkpoints that people in one office do not seem to know what another office is doing.
(Additional reports from Strenk will appear in
the Summer Trojan during the course ofthe games.)
Lamb had been an unofficial election commissioner and had run two abortive attempts at elections in the school. In an election run by the council, Lamb and Collella were elected, but many questions were raised.
Among the major questions were the possibility of tampering with the ballots and the time frame involved.
Ballots were placed in the graduate IR students mailboxes in the School of International Relations office. There were charges by Tom Johnson, a international relations student and last year a member of the PAC’s executive committee, that he never received a ballot and neither did a number of other students.
Out of the 70 students who could have voted, only about 15 cast ballots. While the percentage is higher than undergraduate elections, Johnson said that the previous two selections of electors took place in open meetings of the IR graduate students.
There was also questions raised about the time period allowed for the return of ballots. Ballots were placed in the mailboxes on April 1, a Thursday, and due in the PAC office on Monday, April 5. Johnson complained that many students did not know about the mailboxes and that those who did had insufficient time to get the ballots. He said that many of the students have classes only on Mondays and Wednesdays so that they would not have received ballots until the day they were due.
While the commission found both Lamb and Johnson at fault in a number of their actions, it ordered new elections in September.
If Lamb, who was later elected to a seat on the council by the electors in The Graduate School, is again elected there would be no change in the results of the Graduate School elections. However, if he does not win, then the electors will have to be reconvened to select a new
representative.
In the original elections, David Blackmar received 31 votes for the council seats, Renee Jackson-White received 29, Jim Lamb, 24, Narbik Manu-kian, 21, Connie Lynch, 12, and Scott Mall, 6.
Jackson-White has been seated as a member of the council. There was a challenge to Blackmar’s ability to serve because of his academic standing. Blackmar has since submitted a letter of resignation from the seat. Blackmar has not yet received his bachelor’s degree, and was not admitted to the graduate school.
Manukian has been seated to replace Blackmar on the council.
Glenn Sonnenberg, chairman of the students senate and a member of the elections and credentials commission, said he was pleased with the decision.
He said that both parties were too heavily involved in the issue and there was a conflict of interest. He also said that the election run by the PAC elections commission had been mishandled.
The election in the fall will be run by the Student Senate, under a new set of rules that will set up election commissions. He said that student elections should be run by students. The new rules provide for graduate and undergraduate election commissions, with decisions appealable to a joint commission, and then to the PAC elections and credentials commission.
The rules also provide for strict eligibility requirements and designate who will run the elections.
(In the International Relations case, there was a question of whether there was a student organization that could run the elections. The new rules are designed to settle such disputes.)
The credentials and elections commission will meet again later this month to iron out problems with a number of issues, including the elections for Graduate School representatives.